May 27, 2004

So I'm home.

I haven't really been writing but on the occasional...occasions I make it to the keyboard I've been working on this photo essay about going to Cornell a couple of weeks ago that I started...a couple of weeks ago. When it finally arrives, it will be every bit as enlightening and entertaining and chock full of photographic goodness and wholesome verbiage as the obscene amount I've time I've spent working on it would suggest. (Lie.)

The condo is no more. The condo is where my best-friends-in-the-world Trevor, Chuck, and Alecia lived up until a couple of days ago. Chuck and Alecia moved back home (or, I should say, to their respective homes.) Trevor moved into an apartment he will share with his sister when she moves in at the end of the summer. Besides my three best friends, the condo was home to two cats, briefly three; a leather couch I slept on as much as my own bed when I came back to Phoenix the first time; a staggering collection of liquor bottles; any number of empty-beer-can structures knocked down, thrown in the recycle bin, then promptly replaced within the week, if not the day; a layer of carpet-filth peppered with cigarette and hookah-coal burns and spilled god-knows-what; a giant black-and-white picture of a Young Boy from A&F that watched you as you peed downstairs; a similarly giant picture of Snoop and Pac above the fireplace; police citations; a stripper pole; a balcony perfect for bullshitting and smoking; at least two magnetic poetry sets; a miniature Zen garden; a Playstation 2; a bong named Nightlife; nights I was there for and many more that I wasn't.

It's empty now. The carpets have been cleaned and the locks are changed. The new owners will probably actually lock the door. Come to think of it, they might not have drinking habits and they won't ever pee off the balcony. They sound like lame fucking pricks to me.

Everybody's still around, but something is definitely over. I tried to find a picture to sum it up. Couldn't. Here's a kitten instead:

Her name is Awesome. She's at home with Chuck now.

Alecia left for Hawaii with Andrew today, I guess. I saw her last night but didn't remember she was leaving or think to make a big deal of it. I probably won't see her again until I come back in December. Bummer. Thinking about how happy I am in New York, it makes sense that there's a price to be paid for it, and that price is an inordinate number of This-Is-The-Last-Time-I-Will-See-You-For-A-Long-Long-Times. Friends. Family. I can't wait to get back but I can. Y'know?

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